The last maintenance on NY3 datacenter kept my webserver constantly timing out during one hour. All the high availability solutions with the current floating IP implementation wouldn't work because today it's only possible to reassign the IP to droplets in the same datacenter, which in this case were entirely compromised.

It would be great to have the ability to float IPs between datacenters. It would then be possible to build a really robust high availability infra.

Digital Ocean generously sponsors rails-assets.org, and I wanted to use the floating IP feature but our only downtime so far was due to a hardware failure on one of Digital Ocean's nodes. Because there's no way to guarantee that two droplets in the same region are on different hypervisors, then we have to deploy our failover machine in a different region. So that makes the floating IP functionality pretty much useless for us. Switching our DNS to AWS's Route 53 was the best option for us.